MHG32720 - The Wart Stone

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A coping stone on the wall of inverallen Old Cemetery. It is found close to the old baptismal font on the east side. Oral tradition says that people with warts would wash them in the rainwater which collected in the hollow of the stone. Hopefully this would cure them. Site visited and photographed by John Halliday, 6/10/03. Highland Archaeology Challenge.
See assoc. docs. File.
J Aitken : 21/01/04.

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Grid reference Centred NJ 0273 2603 (6m by 6m) (2 map features)
Map sheet NJ02NW
Civil Parish CROMDALE, INVERALLAN AND ADVIE
Geographical Area BADENOCH AND STRATHSPEY

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